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Princeton, which visits Cambridge in early February, will be Harvard's toughest opponent and could threaten the Crimson's bid for eight straight Eastern Championship titles...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Aquamen Make Waves; Torpedo Brown, 83-49 | 12/4/1985 | See Source »

...better than the its predecessors. But Godzilla just isn't any bigger and better. The creature has no new powers. It doesn't destroy anything more than it did in the past (in fact it was pretty lenient on Toyko this time). It doesn't travel in space, threaten the moon, or try to stop the Earth from rotating...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Same Old Monkey | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

...unanticipated impact on academic careers has made it the focus of intense scrutiny by some faculty and administrators, who have led a relentless if futile crusade to purge subjectiveness from its pages. In the process, they have compromised its value to students, and in their zeal, they now threaten to emasculate the guide altogether...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: CUE Quandry | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

PEACEFUL POLITICAL change, even if it is neither immediate nor comprehensive, is unarguably preferable to violence. The specter of revolution and race war in South Africa is horrifying, for it will inevitably be bloody and threaten to wreek one of the most productive economics in the world. Obviously, the group that would suffer most in such a confrontation is the white establishment--whites stand to lose their wealth, their country, and very possibly their lives. And yet, it is the white government that is giving Black South Africans no option but to engage in violent resistance...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Revolution: The Only Alternative | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...saving the U.S. and its friends from all sorts of sinister types. Retiring to a mountaintop in California, he hopes to spend the rest of his days in peaceful pursuits, like raising his motherless daughter. But bad guys being bad guys, they want revenge. They kidnap his child and threaten to kill her unless he assassinates the President of a fictional country in Central America. The rest of the film is devoted to Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his enemies. He shoots them, drops them off cliffs, slits their throats, chops off their arms, breaks their necks, and blows them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Muscle At the Box Office: Arnold Schwarzenegger | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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